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International Committee of the Red Cross - Sri Lanka
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent organization whose mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence, and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the...
Sarvodaya Headquarters
The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement is a self-governance movement working in ten thousand villages with nearly four million people across Sri Lanka. It works to fulfill human needs such as clean and healthy environment, water, clothing, food, health care, housing, energy, education and spiritual and...
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty
This Report outlines the status of achievement of MDGs in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies some of the key challenges. It was published in 2010 by The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in conjunction with the ADB and UNDP.
Disaster Management Centre -Sri Lanka
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) aims to promote and strengthen national capacities for managing natural disasters in Sri Lanka. The centre’s activities include awareness and educational programmes on disaster management, relief, rehabilitation and construction work, national disaster planning...
Adopt Sri Lanka
Adopt Sri Lanka is a group of individuals and businessmen whose objective is to assist rebuilding and rehabilitating local communities on the coastline of Sri Lanka to get their lives back to normal as quickly as possible. Having originally worked with other NGOs, Adopt Sri Lanka is now principally...
Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (Gte.) Limited
The Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) is an association of agencies working in, and supporting work in, Sri Lanka. CHA focuses on two main roles: functioning as a network with like-minded organisations and implementing projects on behalf of, and with, its members. Through project...
Muslim Women's Research and Action Forum
Muslim Women's Research and Action Forum (MWRAF) is a NGO established to address the critical issues facing Muslim women in Sri Lanka. It strives to create a greater awareness amongst Muslim women of their socio-legal status, to empower women to realise their full potential and to promote...
SOS Children's Villages - Sri Lanka
SOS Children's Villages of Sri Lanka is a non-governmental social development organisation that has been active in the field of children's rights and committed to children's needs and concerns since 1981. SOS Children's Villages of Sri Lanka is part of the umbrella organisation SOS Children's...
Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya
Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya is a Sri Lanka based NGO working to motivate women to be self-reliant and educate fatherless children. Key organisational activities include the establishment of a revolving fund for the use by members, the training of women in self-employment ventures, the...
International Buddhist Relief Organisation
The International Buddhist Relief Organisation is a UK based NGO established in 1995 to relieve suffering world-wide. The organisation has sent aid to Kosovo, India and Africa, but is currently focusing its efforts on the victims of the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka for whom it is raising funds and...
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is a foundation with objectives for sustainable improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty and social inequalities in developing countries. They aim to achieve this through the research and spread information on issues of sustainable...
HelpAge International (Asia/Pacific)
HelpAge International (Asia/Pacific), a regional development centre of HelpAge International, is dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged elderly in the Asia/Pacific regin through both practical and policy programmes to help the region adapt to demographic changes. The main regional...
United Nations Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC) - Indian Ocean
UN Joint Logistics Centres are set up in cases of major disaster with substantial humanitarian multi-sectorial involvement to contribute to the rapid response, better coordination, and improved efficiency of the humanitarian operation at hand. A new UNJLC has been set-up in response to the...
Asian Health Institute (AHI)
Group of medical practitioners that provide both preventive and curative health care programmes, and medical training for local communities in Asia.
US Agency for International Development (USAID) - Sri Lanka
USAID extends assistance to countries recovering from disaster and trying to escape poverty. USAID Sri Lanka's portfolio consists of four programmes that concentrate on laying the foundations for economic growth, promoting inclusive and peaceful approaches to politics and governance, improving the...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Sri Lanka
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It is present in 166 countries working with them on their own solutions to global and...
South Asia: Earthquake & Tsunami Dec 2004 Information Resources - ARCHIVED
Last updated: Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 *Reliefweb - South Asia: Earthquake & Tsunami Dec 2004* "http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=TS-2004-000147-LKA&rc=3":http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=TS-2004-000147-LKA&rc=3 ReliefWeb is an...
Physical Infrastructure Design Unit (PIDU) - United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Physical Infrastructure Design Unit (PIDU) - United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), a multidisciplinary design team within UNOPS, has assessment specialists, architects, engineers and quantity suveyors, ready to mobilise to virtually any location on earth to undertake assessments,...
World Bank - Sri Lanka
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report
Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first eight and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning...